Car Accident Kills Ottawa Teen reports Ottawa Citizen

Published on: Wednesday December 16, 2009
OTTAWA — Two Ottawa-area teens were set to ride horses in the Carleton Place Santa Claus parade on Saturday, but they never made it.


Kyle Simpson, 19, of Ashton, was pronounced dead after his girlfriend’s car was struck head-on by a truck Saturday afternoon on South Lavant Road, just west of Highway 511 in Lanark Highlands Township. Simpson’s girlfriend, Amelia McInnes, 19, of Lanark Highlands, is in critical condition at an Ottawa hospital.


McInnes, who suffered severe head trauma, can’t speak to her family and is not yet aware Simpson has died. Her family wants to wait until she is well enough to ask about him.


“She squeezed my hand and fluttered her eyes, but she wouldn’t show me her pretty blues,” said her mother, Cheryl McInnes.


“I kept on saying, ‘Just show mommy your pretty blues.’”


The teens started dating in August and were inseparable. Simpson, who asked McInnes out twice before she finally agreed, became interested in riding horses because his girlfriend was a barrel racer.


They were going to ride in the Santa Claus parade with the Wicksteed Stable and Tack Shop.


Investigators are still trying to determine the cause of the crash.


Cheryl McInnes was following 15 minutes behind her daughter, but was stopped by police.


A member of the volunteer fire department told her a black Dodge, the same kind that her daughter drives, had been in an accident.


Emergency crews wouldn’t let her close enough to the scene to see her daughter.


Simpson’s family will say goodbye to their only son today at a funeral in Carleton Place.


A trust fund has been set up to help McInnes. Donations can be made to any Royal Bank under the name Cheryl McInnes.Source: Ottawa Citizen